<p>I’m surprised that Wesleyan doesn’t have an online system for acceptances; I really wish they did. In theory couldn’t they integrate something with the WesCheck system. (Although there was something nice about receiving the decisions the old fashion way from all the liberal arts colleges to which I applied.)</p>
<p>From my understanding, if you did apply for financial aid, that information was online when the decisions were mailed…so basically if there was nothing in your student portal thing you could have safely assumed that (if you were excepting aid) that you were either rejected or waitlisted.</p>
<p>I could go on a screaming rampage about mail from other institutions, but it’s not worth it. For example I live about less than 30 minutes from a certain institution I applied to…and I won’t even begin to describe how f-ed up their acceptances are…I’ve yet to receive any aid from them to boot.</p>
<p>I do think that given the volume of mail being sent, the holiday season (as both the Jewish holidays earlier this week and subsequently Easter the next week has added to this)…and to top it off taxes (it didn’t occur to me, because my parents filed their returns really early this year.) </p>
<p>In most cases when colleges do not pay the 39 cents full rate, it is still mailed “first-class”—however it’s presorted, which somehow makes it cheaper I guess. It’s not like they mailed it out media mail or something. Now that would have been a slap in the face.</p>